A Multiagent Framework for Automated Online Bargaining

Automated online bargaining is currently limited by fixed price-issuing capabilities. The authors propose a multi-agent framework for automated bargaining that uses pattern matching and a dynamic price-issuing agent to better serve customers and the seller's bottom line.

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